Manmohan betters Indira record in changing railway ministers, 19-yr-old student commits suicide, IITian quits Hollywood job to design 'suitcase lab' and skills don't match jobs in India's new work profile were most read on the website. Read on for more...

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Indira record in changing railway ministersThe return of Congress veteran CP Joshi in Rail Bhawan on Saturday set a new record in frequency of shuffling in railway ministers. Joshi became the sixth railway minister in four years of the second UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh surpassed the record of Indira Gandhi who had rolled six railway ministry heads in as many years after she became Prime Minister in 1967. Read more...

Mumbai: harassed by classmates, 19-yr-old student commits suicideA 19-year-old engineering student from Navi Mumbai killed himself on the railway tracks between Vithalwadi and Ulhasnagar railway stations on Friday night. The railway police found a suicide note from the pocket of the student, Nitin Padalkar, in which he said that he was being harassed by two of his classmates. Read more...

IITian quits Hollywood job to design 'suitcase lab'Village folk may soon have access to correct medical diagnosis at their doorstep – thanks to a miniature pathological laboratory packed into a suitcase. The mobile lab that can conduct tests which could lead to early identification of many diseases has been designed by Amit Bhatnagar, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Roorkee. Read more...

Skills don't match jobs in India's new work profileTwo-and-half years ago, on a dour December morning, Jasbinder Kaur (name changed), a 25-year old MA in Economics, was queuing-up alongside 1, 200 aspirants for the job of a peon in district courts in Punjab. Kaur hung around for a couple of hours, seeking cold comfort by talking to a few other hopefuls that included law graduates, MBA and M.Phil degree holders vying for eight jobs on offer. Read more...